Verse 20
20. Where An exclamation of assumed triumph, as if all these competitors of the cross were nowhere.
The wise The sophos, the philosoph.
The scribe As the apostle advances, his mind recognises that the Jewish parallels to the sophoi and philosophs of the heathen world, namely, the scribes, must be included in the same humiliation. He deals, mainly, with Greek philosophs because Corinth is a Greek city.
Disputer of this world A generic term including both the preceding, sage and scribe.
Made foolish Stultified, reduced to idiocy. The maxim of Socrates, said to have been inherited from Pythagoras, was, that “sophia, in truth, belongs to God alone.”
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